Emilio Gola

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sulla spiaggia di Alassio, 1917 (Fondazione Cariplo)

Emilio Gola (Milan, 1851–1923) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Born into a noble family, Gola was encouraged to develop his interest in art in his adolescence by his father, a dilettante painter. He graduated in industrial engineering from the Milan Polytechnic in 1873 and devoted himself to painting under the guidance of Sebastiano De Albertis. His training also involved frequent trips to Paris and the Netherlands. He made his debut at the 1879 Exposition of Fine Arts at the Brera Academy and afterwards participated regularly in national exhibitions, but obtained his greatest official recognition at the European level. An esteemed portrait painter as from the 1880s, he depicted women of the Milanese nobility in their fashionable, worldly dimension but with a vigorously naturalistic approach. His portraits were accompanied by a rich repertoire of views of Milan and the countryside of Brianza in bright colours that were to constitute his stylistic hallmark. Active in the region of Liguria and Venice, he focused in his late period on seascapes distinguished by great formal synthesis and expressive intensity. One of his pupils was Alberto Malaspina (painter) (1853 – 1903).^[1]

References

Elena Lissoni, Emilio Gola, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

↑ Istituto Matteucci biography.

Other projects

Media related to Emilio Gola at Wikimedia Commons

Persondata
Name	Gola, Emilio
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1851
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Date of death	1923
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.